Some of his camp’s favorite musical choices, and some of his own
On Friday night, the Carlebach classic “Yibaneh, Yibaneh, Yibaneh Hamikdash” used to be like a wake-up call. The last couple of years it’s been “Niggun Bobov” — composed by the Kedushas Tzion of Bobov ztz”l and recently re-released by Arele Samet — which today has become an instant stand-up-on-the- benches song.
The classic “VeliYerushalayim” from Dveykus, and another “VeliYerushalayim” niggun composed in Camp Munk and not yet on any official album. (We’ve had a lot of beautiful music composed at Munk over the years, as both Shalsheles and Lev Tahor are groups of Munk guys. And Yisroel Lamm himself started off here. I think it’s our circus that gives everyone a chance to develop talent.)
Miami Boys’ Choir’s Besiyata Dishmaya, a classic from the 1980s. First of all, at the time I knew some of the boys who sang on it. Second, the lead track is unforgettable and so uplifting. I think this was one of the key albums that raised the bar in Jewish music and set the tone for a lot of inspiring songs that followed.
I was in Camp Na’arim (now called Bonim) for many years, and there we sang Shir Hamaalos to Rabbi Shmuel Kunda’s “Here Comes the Trolley.” That’s a tune we used in yeshivah too.
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